Friday, February 27, 2015

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SCHOOL INFO:

URGENT - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:

We are in need of volunteers to assist a Leland & Gray staff member in cooking for the Saturday Concert Series. If you are available and interested, please arrive at the Leland & Gray cafeteria at 4:30 today (Friday, 2/27). Volunteers are also needed before, during and after the Saturday event. We will begin set up at 4:30 on Saturday at the Townshend Town Hall.

Community Hope and Action:

Community Hope and Action presents the “Last Saturday Concert Series”: free monthly performances and supper for all ages at the Townshend Town Hall, at 6 to 9 PM.

Saturday, February 28th features The Bondville Boys – original, eclectic roots and bluegrass music from Vermont. “Some of us are from Bondville and some of us are boys!”Please bring a potluck appetizer or dessert to share with your friends and neighbors, new and old! Volunteers will provide the main meal and beverages.

Let hope in! We care about you! Bring your whole family and have fun!

Many groups from in and around Townshend contribute to the “Last Saturday Concert Series.” They include the Townshend Fire Department, Townshend Library, Townshend Masons, Townshend American Legion, West Townshend Community Project, Townshend Elementary School, Leland and Gray Union High School, West River Valley Thrives, Vermont Department of Health, Health Care and Rehabilitative Services, Grace Cottage Hospital, Calvary Chapel, Our Lady of the Valley Church, and The Townshend Church.

Introduction to College Studies (ICS):

Are you thinking about college, but still not sure? Are you wondering if you’re prepared to succeed? Are you assuming that college is too expensive for you? Intro to College Studies is a free CCV class that helps you wrestle with these questions, sharpen your skills, and prepare for college. It meets once a week for 13 weeks and is offered at all CCV locations in Vermont and at other Vermont state colleges. More information can be found here.

Leland & Gray Peer Review Team:

Leland and Gray’s Peer Review Team of students, staff, and a community member completed an evaluation from August through December 2014. The peer review project resulted in five distinct findings all supported by evidence. The topics include: (1) Communication and Relationships, (2) Democratic Practices, (3) Real-world Education, (4) Student-centered Learning, and (5) Equity and Instructional Differentiation. We will present the findings in depth to the School Board on Tuesday, March 10th and to the Parent Advisory Group on Tuesday, March 17th. Both presentations take place in the school library, beginning at 7 pm, and are open to the public. Please attend!

Parent-Teacher Conferences:

Leland and Gray Parents and Guardians: please e-mail pbrissette@lelandandgray.org if you would like to make an appointment for Parent Conferences on March 26th.

Wellness Fair:

Wellness Fair at Leland and Gray Union Middle and High School March 6th.

Mark your calendars now for a Wellness Fair to be held at Leland and Gray Union Middle and High School, 2042 VT route 30 Townshend VT, from 4pm to 7pm.

The Wellness Fair is free and open to the public and will provide education and connection with services available in the community such as; Alcoholics Anonymous, American Red Cross, VT Food Connect, Women’s Freedom Center, Youth Services and more.

Free blood pressure screenings will be available.

For more information or to become a vendor, you may call 802-365-7355.

LEAF Meetings:

L.E.A.F. - Leland & Gray Environmental Action Force

Want to farm?

Want to reduce how much trash L&G generates?

Want to make upcycled crafts with elementary students?

Want to attend student centered summits to make our school more sustainable?

Want to plan, build and plant a greenhouse at L&G?

Want to watch movies on science, art, nature, and other cool stuff?

Want to bring local produce to your cafeteria?

JOIN US! - We make things happen.

Middle School students - Thursday lunch meetings with Ms. Davis

High School students - Fridays lunch meetings with Ms. Nyzio

The Rebel Clefs:

The Middle School Chorus and our a cappella group, the Rebel Clefs, will be traveling to the Kurn Hattin Homes on March 18th to participate in the Middle School Choral Invitational. The concert starts at 7 PM.

Penny War:

The Above the Influence group will be organizing a Penny War. How it works is each class gets a jar. A penny gives your class a point, but a dime would take away 10 points, a nickle 5 points and a quart 25. The money raised will be split with a local prevention charity, and the Above the Influence group. So if you have some extra change kicking around please bring it. The winning class will get 50 spirit points, second place 40, third 30 and so on until last place. Thank you for your support.

HATS OFF!:

The Leland and Gray Players celebrate their 19th season with HATS OFF 2015! on March 6 and 7 in the Dutton Gymnasium on the Leland and Gray campus, Route 30, Townshend.An eclectic parade of music, dance and comedy Hats Off offers Leland and Gray Players in grades 7-12 an opportunity to select what they want to perform, to display their strengths, to hone new skills, and to discover different ways to contribute to the performance. Many students also direct, choreograph and design for Hats Off.This year’s show includes classic comedic skits by Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, Monty Python, Alan Alda. Other sketches include modern comedy of Saturday Night Live and MadTV, as well as company improvisations and parodies. Songs and dances will include musical numbers from Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., Music Man, Aladdin, Tom Leherer, Rocky Horror Picture Show… and more.Featuring several new faces as well as a host of veterans, the Hats Off ’15 company includes Adam Culver, Jesse Cannella, Madison Cannella, Maria Gropler, Rebekah Winot, Susie Francy, Caroline Mehner, Tino Benson, Gabrel Vanni-Phillips, Vince Ferrizzi, Nathaniel van Osdol, Nathan Claussen, Bradford Cutts, Giannina Gaspero-Beckstrom, Sam Dutton, Emma Urbaska, Julia Barton, Nastia Stevens, Corrin Broussard, Trey Crego, Veronica Stevens, Rachael Turner, Zoie Brooks and Fairen Stark. Producer is Ann Landenberger and assistant director is Alexa Litchfield’ 15. Crew includes Olivia Reilly, Emily Thibault, Rachel Spence, Sam Thibault, Skyler Nupp, Sam Harrison, Kaylah Jacobs, Emily Frost, Kayla Gibbons. Dale Stevens is Tech Director; Nastia Stevens is costumier and Nathaniel van Osdol, prop master. Kenny Cashman and Ana-Cate Harrison are on lights; Grant Cullen, Sage Hall and Susie Francy on sound. Dan DeWalt is accompanist.Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors; available at the door. Performances of the two-hour Hats Off! are Friday March 6, 7:30 PM; Saturday March 7, 3PM and 7:30 PM Information: verbatim@svcable.net; 802-365-7355 x 204

2015-2016 Elective Opportunity:

Think electives for 2015-2016!GO PUBLIC Grades 9-12 Do you want to be a good blogger? Are you tired of shabby Facebook entries and confusing, misleading texts and e-mails? Need to get your point across loud and clear through social media? Do you have poems ready to go public? Or short stories? Or do you dream of being a journalist? This lively, hands-on elective will cover them all. In the process, you’ll learn how to write well, effectively and efficiently. Course requirements include one submission per week to the class blog, to your own blog, or to the occasional publication that the class will launch. We’ll work on growing vocabulary and tweaking grammar organically—through your writing.

Journey East:

Applicants for the Journey East 2016 Program are reminded to hand applications in to Ms. Riemenschneider. Interviews and auditions will start on Feb. 23 and run through March 13.

AFTER SCHOOL INFO:

Late Bus:

The late bus will be running the following dates:

Monday - Thursday: February 23- April 16thIt will not run on: February 25, March 4, March 11, March 18Monday - Thursday: May 4-May 28th

COMMUNITY:

Tax Preparation Assistance:

United Way Windham County is offering two programs that provide FREE federal and state income-tax preparation services to eligible taxpayers: the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program and MyFreeTaxes.

For eligible households earning $53,000 or less per year, a VITA sitewill be available in Brattleboro where IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE tax preparation. UWWC is also partnering with MyFreeTaxes.com, a FREE on-line tool available to eligible households earning $60,000 or less a year. Call 2-1-1 for more information.

Exchange Opportunity:

Ms. Suquet has received information about a French boy who would like to come to the US for three weeks this summer and stay with a family with a boy his age. The boy who hosts the French student would then go back to France and experience French life with the boy's family. French is not required though it would add to the experience. Please see Ms. Suquet for more information if you are a boy open to this kind of great adventure!

Community College of Vermont:

Community College of Vermont is offering a free course in Bellows Falls for high-school aged youth and young adults living in Vermont and New Hampshire. Introduction to College Studies is a 28-hour course that provides an orientation to the college experience and career exploration. This course helps participants make the transition to college and careers by exploring the skills and expectations necessary to succeed in academic and professional settings. Introduction to College Studies is being offered in response to many requests we’ve received to provide a presence in the Bellows Falls area and make education and career development opportunities available locally.

If you know of high-school aged youth, parents of youth and/or young adults who may benefit from this course, please share this information with them. Individuals interested can contact me directly or self-enroll at www.ccv.edu/apply.

Please contact me with any questions or for more information.

Debra Grant

Academic Coordinator

Community College of Vermont

802/885-8372

Debra.Grant@ccv.edu

Jobs Available:

West River Transportation is in need of bus drivers for home to school and trip drivers. Anyone that has any interest in training for this position, please contact Bernardine at 802-365-9240 or by email at westriver22@yahoo.com.

Center for Creative Youth:

APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED FOR CCY 2015!! For details, visit our website at www.crec.org/ccy

This is a great program, with a long history of having a lasting, positive impact on the lives of young artists!

Center for Creative Youth (CCY), a nationwide award-winning model of quality education through the arts, provides a pre-college intensive arts residency during June/July. Approximately 150 sophomores, juniors and seniors from rural, urban and suburban areas of Connecticut, across the United States and abroad, spend 4 weeks at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where CCY has taken place for the past 38 years (since 1977). Students from divergent geographic, ethnic, economic and racial backgrounds grow and learn together through the commonality of art. This program increases artistic and academic skills with an advanced and rigorous arts curriculum as students share a positive, enlightening educational and social experience living on a college campus.

Application Deadline in March 2, 2015. Auditions are March 14th and March 28th, 2015.

Online submissions/auditions are accepted. Email Program Coordinator Lisa Foss at lfoss@crec.org for details.

ATHLETICS:

Softball Players:

Attention girls:

There will be four Softball Open Gym Sessions from 6:00pm - 8:00pm on the following dates: March 3, 4, 10, and 11. Bring your glove, and everything else will be provided! Get a chance to throw, hit, and work on skills with Mr. Gouger! THINK SPRING!!

High School Winter Sports Banquet:

The High School Winter Sports Banquet will be held on Thursday March 5th at 5:30pm in the Main Gym and Activity Room. The style will be Potluck...please bring your favorite dish!

High School Baseball:

Pitchers and catchers season will begin on Monday March 16th. Please check Digital Sports for the practice times.

High School Softball:

Wellness Fair:

All students interested in participating in a spring co-curricular that didn't participate in fall or winter activities must attend the Wellness Fair on Friday March 6th from 4-7pm in the Main Gym. We encourage all students to attend this exciting event!

Wellness Fair:

Wellness Fair at Leland and Gray Union Middle and High School March 6th.

Mark your calendars now for a Wellness Fair to be held at Leland and Gray Union Middle and High School, 2042 VT route 30 Townshend VT, from 4pm to 7pm.

The Wellness Fair is free and open to the public and will provide education and connection with services available in the community such as; Alcoholics Anonymous, American Red Cross, VT Food Connect, Women’s Freedom Center, Youth Services and more.

Free blood pressure screenings will be available.

For more information or to become a vendor, you may call 802-365-7355.

Samba Band:

It's a great time to join samba band!! We meet once a week on Thursdays from 2:40 - 4 PM Starting on February 12th. Come on down to the music room to help make a big funky sound.

Penny War:

The Above the Influence group will be organizing a Penny War. How it works is each class gets a jar. A penny gives your class a point, but a dime would take away 10 points, a nickle 5 points and a quart 25. The money raised will be split with a local prevention charity, and the Above the Influence group. So if you have some extra change kicking around please bring it. The winning class will get 50 spirit points, second place 40, third 30 and so on until last place. Thank you for your support.

Costa Rica Trip:

Only TWO MORE DAYS until 19 students, two teachers and three community members head south for a 10 day stay in Costa Rica. The group will hike in rain forests, perform community service a poor banana plantation school, swim in the beautiful Caribbean Ocean, study sustainablility, white water raft, including an overnight stay in the jungle and much, much more.

HATS OFF!:

Leland and Gray Players present HATS OFF!, its annual cavalcade of comedy, song and dance including favorite numbers from musicals and films such as Chicago, Aladdin, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Les Miserables, Chorus Line, Music Man, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Rocky Horror Picture Show and more; sketches from classic comedy including Nichols and May, Dorothy Parker, Monty Python, as well as new comedy, dance, a touch of drama and a few surprises.Friday, March 6 at 7:30 and Saturday, March 7 at 3 and 7:30 in Leland and Gray's Dutton Gymnasium, Rte. 30, Townshend. Adults: $5; Students: $3. More info: verbatim@svcable.net

2015-2016 Elective Opportunity:

Think electives for 2015-2016!GO PUBLIC Grades 9-12 Do you want to be a good blogger? Are you tired of shabby Facebook entries and confusing, misleading texts and e-mails? Need to get your point across loud and clear through social media? Do you have poems ready to go public? Or short stories? Or do you dream of being a journalist? This lively, hands-on elective will cover them all. In the process, you’ll learn how to write well, effectively and efficiently. Course requirements include one submission per week to the class blog, to your own blog, or to the occasional publication that the class will launch. We’ll work on growing vocabulary and tweaking grammar organically—through your writing.

Journey East:

Applicants for the Journey East 2016 Program are reminded to hand applications in to Ms. Riemenschneider. Interviews and auditions will start on Feb. 23 and run through March 13.

AFTER SCHOOL INFO:

Late Bus:

The late bus will be running the following dates:

Monday - Thursday: February 23- April 16thIt will not run on: February 25, March 4, March 11, March 18Monday - Thursday: May 4-May 28th

COMMUNITY:

Tax Preparation Assistance:

United Way Windham County is offering two programs that provide FREE federal and state income-tax preparation services to eligible taxpayers: the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program and MyFreeTaxes.

For eligible households earning $53,000 or less per year, a VITA sitewill be available in Brattleboro where IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE tax preparation. UWWC is also partnering with MyFreeTaxes.com, a FREE on-line tool available to eligible households earning $60,000 or less a year. Call 2-1-1 for more information.

Community College of Vermont:

Community College of Vermont is offering a free course in Bellows Falls for high-school aged youth and young adults living in Vermont and New Hampshire. Introduction to College Studies is a 28-hour course that provides an orientation to the college experience and career exploration. This course helps participants make the transition to college and careers by exploring the skills and expectations necessary to succeed in academic and professional settings. Introduction to College Studies is being offered in response to many requests we’ve received to provide a presence in the Bellows Falls area and make education and career development opportunities available locally.

If you know of high-school aged youth, parents of youth and/or young adults who may benefit from this course, please share this information with them. Individuals interested can contact me directly or self-enroll at www.ccv.edu/apply.

Please contact me with any questions or for more information.

Debra Grant

Academic Coordinator

Community College of Vermont

802/885-8372

Debra.Grant@ccv.edu

Jobs Available:

West River Transportation is in need of bus drivers for home to school and trip drivers. Anyone that has any interest in training for this position, please contact Bernardine at 802-365-9240 or by email at westriver22@yahoo.com.

Jobs Available:

Mount Snow Resort is looking for Staff for the February Break Vacation

Positions in our Child Care and Cub Camp Program are available as well as in Food and Beverage and Parking.

If you are looking to work some shifts over your break to make some cash and earn a lift ticket for each day worked then give us a call in

Center for Creative Youth:

APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED FOR CCY 2015!! For details, visit our website at www.crec.org/ccy

This is a great program, with a long history of having a lasting, positive impact on the lives of young artists!

Center for Creative Youth (CCY), a nationwide award-winning model of quality education through the arts, provides a pre-college intensive arts residency during June/July. Approximately 150 sophomores, juniors and seniors from rural, urban and suburban areas of Connecticut, across the United States and abroad, spend 4 weeks at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where CCY has taken place for the past 38 years (since 1977). Students from divergent geographic, ethnic, economic and racial backgrounds grow and learn together through the commonality of art. This program increases artistic and academic skills with an advanced and rigorous arts curriculum as students share a positive, enlightening educational and social experience living on a college campus.

Application Deadline in March 2, 2015. Auditions are March 14th and March 28th, 2015.

Online submissions/auditions are accepted. Email Program Coordinator Lisa Foss at lfoss@crec.org for details.

ATHLETICS:

Baseball Coach Needed:

Leland and Gray Athletics has two open coaching positions and is looking for candidates interested in coaching Boys JV Baseball and Middle School Baseball. These are stipend positions that begin on March 16th (HS) and the middle of April (MS) and ends in late May (HS & MS).Please email Marty Testo at mtesto@lelandandgray.org or call 802-365-7355 x205.

Baseball Sign Ups:

Sign ups have started for MS and HS Spring Sports. If you are interested in playing Softball or Baseball, please see Mr. Testo to sign up!

Middle School Basketball Tournament:

The Leland and Gray Middle School girls won the Twin Valley Middle School Invitational Tournament this past weekend, defeating Pioneer Regional on Friday and Mohawk Trail Regional in the final on Saturday night. The girls played outstanding team defense, allowing a total of 17 points in the two games. Sydney Hescock had a ton of blocked shots and Arin Bates led the team in steals. The team scored 80 points in the two games, led by Arin on Friday and Sierra in the final on Saturday. Many thanks to Maris, Sierra and Maddy who stepped in to help us when we were short-handed.Congratulations to the girls for finishing with a very respectable record of 9 wins and 3 losses and a big "Thank You" to Skye's mom, Marie Crosby, who was our "official scorer" for most of the season.

Music Department:

For the last 12 years February’s Friday Night Gallery Walk has included a show of talent that gives people one more great reason to come downtown whatever the weather may bring. Taking the stage on Friday, February 6, at 8:00pm, six regional high school a cappella groups will give a concert at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in anticipation of Saturday’s collegiate event at the Latchis. This event has received rave reviews every year, and all proceeds support Brattleboro’s In-Sight Photography Project.

The line-up for Friday evening includes Renegade, Shoulder Narrows, Xpressivo, and Spiralia, all of which are student-directed independent groups from the Brattleboro area. In addition to the student groups, two top-notch high school ensembles will return to round out the show – the Brattleboro Union High School Madrigals, directed by Patty Meyer, and the Leland & Gray Rebel Clefs, directed by Ron Kelley. General admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Seating is limited, with ample standing room.

Samba Band:

It's a great time to join samba band!! We meet once a week on Thursdays from 2:40 - 4 PM Starting on February 12th. Come on down to the music room to help make a big funky sound.

Penny War:

The Above the Influence group will be organizing a Penny War. How it works is each class gets a jar. A penny gives your class a point, but a dime would take away 10 points, a nickle 5 points and a quart 25. The money raised will be split with a local prevention charity, and the Above the Influence group. So if you have some extra change kicking around please bring it. The winning class will get 50 spirit points, second place 40, third 30 and so on until last place. Thank you for your support.

Science Fair:

Any student (grades 7-12) may enter a project in the fair which will be held on March 27th-28th in the Dutton Gym.

The exceptional science teachers at L&G will help guide you through the science fair process, including working on your project design and construction.

If your interested, please get an entry form from your science teacher, fill it out and return it to them by Monday, February 9th.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

-John Dewey

Costa Rica Trip:

Only one more week until 19 students, two teachers and three community members head south for a 10 day stay in Costa Rica. The group will hike in rain forests, perform community service a poor banana plantation school, swim in the beautiful Caribbean Ocean, study sustainablility, white water raft, including an overnight stay in the jungle and much, much more.

2016 Travel Opportunity:

To all interested traveling to Ireland, Wales and England next February 2016, if you haven’t seen Ms. L. for a handout, please stop by B4 sometime in the next couple of days.There’ll be two meetings for all interested students and parents/guardians before February break: If at all possible, please come to a meeting Monday, February 9 or Wednesday, February 11 from 5 to 6 in Room B4. If not possible, please have your family contact me by phone or e-mail, alandenberger@lelandandgray.org. At the meeting we’ll discuss: how travel works with EF Tours; the trip itinerary and the wonderful sights we’ll see; trip expenses and what’s included; what a student traveler can expect and what’s expected of him/her. One note: In order to earn the $100 early registration credit, one must register by February 28.

HATS OFF!:

Leland and Gray Players present HATS OFF!, its annual cavalcade of comedy, song and dance including favorite numbers from musicals and films such as Chicago, Aladdin, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Les Miserables, Chorus Line, Music Man, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Rocky Horror Picture Show and more; sketches from classic comedy including Nichols and May, Dorothy Parker, Monty Python, as well as new comedy, dance, a touch of drama and a few surprises.Friday, March 6 at 7:30 and Saturday, March 7 at 3 and 7:30 in Leland and Gray's Dutton Gymnasium, Rte. 30, Townshend. Adults: $5; Students: $3. More info: verbatim@svcable.net

2015-2016 Elective Opportunity:

Think electives for 2015-2016!GO PUBLIC Grades 9-12 Do you want to be a good blogger? Are you tired of shabby Facebook entries and confusing, misleading texts and e-mails? Need to get your point across loud and clear through social media? Do you have poems ready to go public? Or short stories? Or do you dream of being a journalist? This lively, hands-on elective will cover them all. In the process, you’ll learn how to write well, effectively and efficiently. Course requirements include one submission per week to the class blog, to your own blog, or to the occasional publication that the class will launch. We’ll work on growing vocabulary and tweaking grammar organically—through your writing.

Journey East:

Applicants for the Journey East 2016 Program are reminded to hand applications in to Ms. Riemenschneider. Interviews and auditions will start on Feb. 23 and run through March 13.

AFTER SCHOOL INFO:

Late Bus:

The late bus will be running the following dates:Monday - Thursday: January 5-February 12th

It will not run on: January 21, January 28, February 4, February 11Monday - Thursday: March 2- April 16thIt will not run on: March 4, March 11, March 18Monday - Thursday: May 4-May 28th

COMMUNITY:

Tax Preparation Assistance:

United Way Windham County is offering two programs that provide FREE federal and state income-tax preparation services to eligible taxpayers: the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program and MyFreeTaxes.

For eligible households earning $53,000 or less per year, a VITA sitewill be available in Brattleboro where IRS-certified volunteers provide FREE tax preparation. UWWC is also partnering with MyFreeTaxes.com, a FREE on-line tool available to eligible households earning $60,000 or less a year. Call 2-1-1 for more information.

Community College of Vermont:

Community College of Vermont is offering a free course in Bellows Falls for high-school aged youth and young adults living in Vermont and New Hampshire. Introduction to College Studies is a 28-hour course that provides an orientation to the college experience and career exploration. This course helps participants make the transition to college and careers by exploring the skills and expectations necessary to succeed in academic and professional settings. Introduction to College Studies is being offered in response to many requests we’ve received to provide a presence in the Bellows Falls area and make education and career development opportunities available locally.

If you know of high-school aged youth, parents of youth and/or young adults who may benefit from this course, please share this information with them. Individuals interested can contact me directly or self-enroll at www.ccv.edu/apply.

Please contact me with any questions or for more information.

Debra Grant

Academic Coordinator

Community College of Vermont

802/885-8372

Debra.Grant@ccv.edu

Jobs Available:

West River Transportation is in need of bus drivers for home to school and trip drivers. Anyone that has any interest in training for this position, please contact Bernardine at 802-365-9240 or by email at westriver22@yahoo.com.

Center for Creative Youth:

APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED FOR CCY 2015!! For details, visit our website at www.crec.org/ccy

This is a great program, with a long history of having a lasting, positive impact on the lives of young artists!

Center for Creative Youth (CCY), a nationwide award-winning model of quality education through the arts, provides a pre-college intensive arts residency during June/July. Approximately 150 sophomores, juniors and seniors from rural, urban and suburban areas of Connecticut, across the United States and abroad, spend 4 weeks at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where CCY has taken place for the past 38 years (since 1977). Students from divergent geographic, ethnic, economic and racial backgrounds grow and learn together through the commonality of art. This program increases artistic and academic skills with an advanced and rigorous arts curriculum as students share a positive, enlightening educational and social experience living on a college campus.

Application Deadline in March 2, 2015. Auditions are March 14th and March 28th, 2015.

Online submissions/auditions are accepted. Email Program Coordinator Lisa Foss at lfoss@crec.org for details.

West River Valley Community Project:

ATHLETICS:

Baseball Coach Needed:

The L&G Athletic Department is looking for a Middle School Baseball Coach. The season runs from the middle of April through May. Practices are after school beginning at 2:45pm. It is a stipend position. If interested, please email Marty Testo at mtesto@lelandandgray.org

Middle School Basketball Tournament:

The 7th grade boys and girls MS Basketball Teams will be playing in a 2 day tournament at TVMHS in Whitingham on Friday February 6th and Saturday February 7th.Friday the Girls play at 6:15pm and the Boys play at 7:30pm.Saturday is TBA based on whether they win or lose.The 8th grade teams will be playing in the CVJHL Tournament Saturday February 7th and Sunday February 8th at Keene High School.The Boys play their first game at 8:40am and the Girls play their first game at 1:20pm. The remainder of the schedule is determined by wins and loses and will be available at the tournament site.All teams and fans must enter the school through entrance B9- this is the entrance closest to the football field. There is a large parking lot where everyone can park.

Softball Players:

Want to get a jump start on your skill work before the spring? Keene State College is offering three - 3 hour skills sessions on February 8th, 15th, and 22nd in 2015. You can go online to the Keene State College website and register under "camps" or please see Mrs. Claussen or Mr. Testo for a registration form.

Snowboarding:

Not the best showing for the team on Wednesday, but there was a lot of good competition for them to be up against.Snowboard Team Results from Okemo Halfpipe Competition:Andrew Weitzel = 11thOwen McDonald = 16thPatrick McDonald = 24thLogan Hazard = 30thMax Cramp = 31stA second wind for the Snowboard Team....The team went to Killington Thursday, February 5, and nailed it in the Slopestyle competition!